Uri Hanani Is an operations research and information scientist.  He has accumulated over 25 years of practical, research and teaching experience in the field of information retrieval, expert systems, artificial intelligence and knowledge management. 

His experience and expertise includes developing and managing large computer systems, including the Computer Department of Israel's Ministry of Industry Commerce (Tamas), IBM, and the IT department of the Hadassah Medical Center.
Dr. Hanani was consultant to investment and startup companies. He consulted to prominent institutions and organizations in the public and private sectors. Dr. Hanani headed research and lectured for many years at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan University. He is a lecturer and researcher at the Ben-Gurion University Department of Information Systems Engineering. He has published over 50 research papers in leading scientific journals and presented many of them at international conferences.